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Amelie Sutton
@eastouest.bsky.social
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Ex-Emerging Curation @ Twitter 1.0 / Hellthread enthusiast / Ex-Berlinerin / I love movies & Seattle
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Let's try this! Recommend a movie (post-1920) you love that I probably haven't seen.
December 31, 2023 at 8:32 PM
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I had no idea Naomi Klein's husband has the same first name and a similar last name to Naomi Wolf's husband (I just learned this from her excellent new book, which I've just started)
cartoonishly broad conclusions I would never support. And while I was not yet confused with my doppelganger all that often, I knew that some people would credit me with Wolf's theories. It was an out-of-body feel-ing. I went back and took a closer look at the articles about her evening-wear arrest, and a line in The Guardian jumped out at me: "Her partner, the film producer Avram Ludwig, was also arrested." I read the sentence to my partner, the film director and producer Avram Lewis (who goes by Avi). "What the actual fuck?" he asked. "I know," I said. "It's like a goddamned conspiracy." Then we both burst out laughing. In the decade since Occupy, Wolf has connected the dots between an almost unfathomably large number of disparate bits of fact and fantasy. She has floated unsubstantiated speculations about the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden ("not who he purports to be," hinting that he is an active spy). About U.S. troops sent to build field hospitals in West Af
October 6, 2023 at 11:59 PM
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Nw
Ivansxtc film poster showing an illustration of actor Danny Huston over a reflection of his face with a stylized title
July 10, 2023 at 4:31 AM
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"I've never read Marx's Capital," he once said, "but I have the marks of capital all over my body." @dril.bsky.social- ass quote from Big Bill Haywood
"He spent 16 years underground as a miner, badly mangling his right hand when a pile of rocks fell on it. "I've never read Marx's Capital," he once said, "but I have the marks of capital all over my body" He could talk to western miners, inspire immigrant Wobblies who barely spoke English, dazzle New York's Greenwich Village intelligentsia, and charm some of its women into bed. "Fellow workers," Haywood had declared as he banged a piece of two-by-four on the podium for a makeshift gavel at the founding convention of the Wobblies in 1905, in a Chicago meeting hall thick with cigar smoke, "this is the Continental Congress of the working class!" He fought many battles in the labor wars before and after, earning a beating from mining company detectives and dealing out blows in re-turn. His rhetoric was pithy: "The capitalist has no heart, but harpoon him in the pocketbook and you will draw blood." He lived modestly, earning $22.50 a week from the IWW, only $4.50 more than his secretary a
July 2, 2023 at 5:28 AM
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Johnny Mnemonic film poster showing Keanu Reeves in a charcoal suit holding a futuristic sawed-off shotgun
July 2, 2023 at 5:05 AM
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It really was. Still can't believe we got to see this show unfold week by week in 2017. And the live music scenes were the cherry on top of every episode. I re-listen to Lynch's remix of the Muddy Magnolias's American Woman often.
Actor Laura Dern in Twin Peaks: The Return Actor Amanda Seyfried in Twin Peaks: The Return Black and white scene of woman wearing 1920s clothes in Twin Peajs: The Return
June 24, 2023 at 7:19 PM
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Vibes rn
Fitness instructor recording video of the Myanmar coup in 2021
June 24, 2023 at 6:23 AM
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Wait, the opening scene of the Parallax View was filmed in Seattle??
Description of Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View in Filmlandia!, a book of Seattle filming locations
June 10, 2023 at 6:23 AM
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Master Gardener Film poster showing a close-up of actor Joel Edgerton against a backdrop of flowers
June 9, 2023 at 3:01 AM
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Thankfully some of the responses are good. Like this dude's
@MatthewDownhour's Tweet: This is actually a huge ‘yes’. A robust train and bus system is critical to managing evacuations in the future @MatthewDownhour's Tweets: (1/2) If we’re hurtling towards a future where we regularly evacuate Houston and Miami, we need the ability to rapidly move people in a way cars cannot (2/2) The ability of 10+% of the Ukrainian population to evacuate as quickly as they did speaks to the effectiveness of trains & buses in these circumstances
June 8, 2023 at 1:07 AM
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The wildfires aren't the only thing that's scorching
Tweet from user @jewstein3000: Transit purists caught in wildfire smoke can maybe think about if you expect disabled folks, asthmatics etc to wait outside for buses, no problem. And what about when the wildfires approach your homes? Wait outside for public escape vehicles??
June 7, 2023 at 10:00 PM
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TIL that there is a statue of Genghis Khan in the central square of Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, that is reminiscent of the Lincoln Memorial
Backlit statues in a government building showing Genghis Khan flanked by two men on horseback Statue of Genghis Khan
June 4, 2023 at 4:53 PM
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Douglas Sirk: Hope as in Despair film poster
May 29, 2023 at 4:10 AM
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@kellysutton.bsky.social shared a talk poking fun at programming languages and here was my response https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Text exchange reading: P1: shares link P2: Haha this speaks to my soul P2: I can't wait to never deal with this language again P1: Hahaha
May 25, 2023 at 3:42 AM
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Night of the 12th / La Nuit du 12 film poster
May 24, 2023 at 3:41 AM
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He doesn't look like he's having fun?
Tweet text: "I'm lucky to have gotten the chance to attend game 3 of Heat vs Celtics in Miami last night, and to hang out & have great conversations with @IvankaTrump & @jaredkushner. This was my first time at a live basketball game. Energy was wild! Thank you for this amazing experience" Tweet is by user @lexfridman and shows him standing stone-faced next to Ivanka Trump
May 24, 2023 at 12:24 AM
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The Naked Kiss Japanese film poster
May 21, 2023 at 4:24 AM
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I miss this type of content...let's get more Film/TV Bluesky shitposts on here
A Tweet from user Matt Erspamer showing a promotional image from the TV show And Just Like That. The image echoes The Last Supper. It is captioned "Can you find the wolves in this picture?"
May 19, 2023 at 3:42 AM
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At SIFF, now seated for
A House in Jerusalem (2023) film poster
May 16, 2023 at 8:01 PM
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At SIFF, now seated for
Film poster for Chile '76 (2023) featuring a woman looking through a window against a red background while on the phone
May 12, 2023 at 8:25 PM
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Weird • Last night Neil deGrasse Tyson puts Jeff Bezos' net worth into a new perspective if Jeff Benzos put all his money up his ass he would need a really big as s
May 12, 2023 at 6:00 AM
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@chinchillazilla.hellthread.vet's Tweets are reminding me of
Actor Isabella Rossellini dressed as a seahorse in her series on animal reproduction Isabella Rossellini dressed as a mating duck in her series on animal reproduction
May 12, 2023 at 2:05 AM
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I thought I was out...
A screenshot of the game Moderator Mayhem, a content moderation game, showing a third round score of 89%
May 11, 2023 at 5:32 PM
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Somehow getting worse with every round??
A screenshot of the game Moderator Mayhem, a content moderation game, showing a second round score of 69%
May 11, 2023 at 5:27 PM
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I hated how hard this game was https://moderatormayhem.engine.is/
Screenshot of Moderator Mayhem, a content moderation game, showing a user's round 1 score of 81%
May 11, 2023 at 5:23 PM